Turnitin plagiarism plugin

Hi @mkpelletier, as per our conversation on github that seems to only occur with PHP versions < 5.5.
We'll replace the offending line with:
$textcontent = $file->get_content();
if (empty($textcontent)) {
And release a patch for that today.

Is anyone else getting errors with the latest version 201611103? I am seeing this in php_errors.log:
PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=', expecting ')' in /storage/www/moodle/plagiarism/turnitin/lib.php on line 2387
I had to disable the conditional checking for the empty value and revert to the method used in 201611102. Am I missing something in my configuration perhaps?

Hi Scott, thanks for pointing this out. We'll get this fixed for the next release.

Hi,
My university has been using the 2.8 version of the plugin and found out recently that the latest version we upgraded to (2015040111) broke the submit functionality. We found that it had to do with the use of the mime_content_type() function on line 540 of sdk/lti.class.php. Our solution was to activate a PHP extension called php_fileinfo.dll (one not required by Moodle). After that it seemed to work just fine!
Just thought I would pass this along.

Hi Maria,
Thanks for pointing this out. It seems we made a typing error when creating these strings. I've made a note of it so we can get them changed.

Hi,
I think I have found a mistake on version 2.8, components "turnintintool" and "turnitintooltwo", string "psuedolastnamegen_desc". Maybe instead of "psuedo" it must be "pseudo".
Thank you,

Hi Jim,
Apologies for not getting back to you. This documentation is currently being improved but there are some details here: http://guides.turnitin.com/03_Integrations/Moodle/Moodle_Direct_V2/Direct_V2_Integration_Instructor_User_Manual/35_Enabling_Turnitin_plagiarism_activity_settings
Regards
John

Can I please check if there are there any support materials for instructors using the Moodle Assignment Turnitin plagiarism plugin settings? I can see the Turnitin Direct V2 resources but couldn't see any instructions related specifically to the Moodle Assignment integration settings.
Thanks
Jim

Hi Thanuci,
We do have some Portuguese content along with the Translated Matching feature which will match to English content.

Hi Mathieu and Andrew,
There currently isn't the concept of a cut off date within the Turnitin system but this is being added for Turnitin Next and will be something we will look to add to the plugin then. We are currently looking at the post date and how we can implement this better in the plugin as it's something Moodle doesn't use but something that is required in Turnitin.

Hi guys!
I would like to use Turnitin for assignments written in Portuguese. Do you think it would works?

@John McGettrick. Regarding the cut-off date, it seems that setting this also causes the Turnitin assignment to become read-only. This has some nice use cases, however it causes problems for marking if an institution tries to use this date to establish a point where no new submissions will be permitted, the traditional understanding of "cut-off date". However, as it has been linked to Plagiarism Plugin, you are using it as the "Post-Date".
Suppose, for example, that the cut-off date is 7 days after the official due date. That is, papers that are more than 7 days late will no longer be accepted. If a student does in fact submit on the 7th day and the course facilitator only gets to marking it a day later, the assignment appears as read-only in grademark. This means, the cut-off date then needs to be changed to allow the marker to complete the marking. This whole process is counter-intuitive.
If we wish to use the cut-off date as the date on which all marking should be completed (i.e. analogous to "Post Date" in Tii Tool 2), it should not show to the students in the summary as the cut-off date, since we are conflating our terminology here. It is effectively the end of the marking period (post-date), but is not the cut-off date. As it stands, when one sets the cut-off date where the plagiarism plugin is in use, he does not get the behaviour he expects.

@Andrew Rowatt, @John McGettrick. Andrew's request makes a lot of sense, since in Moodle the course shortname must be unique. This is not so with the course fullname. This being the case, it seems that using the course shortname is better by design. However, I realise there is no such requirement for a unique value in Turnitin's system where the course name is concerned.

Hi Andrew, the cut off date is used as the due date by design as it will be later than the due date if used. With the class short name, I don't see why that would be a problem in general but I suspect it would affect other institutions so would need some investigation amongst end users to see whether this was a desired workflow.

Hi again,
In our system different offerings can have the same course full name but a different "Course short name". Is it possible to use the "Course short name" as the class name in Turnitin?
Thanks,
Andrew